We are pleased to announce the two newest canonically resident clergy in our diocese!
The Very Rev. Canon Bryan Hollon, PhD, has been dean and president of Trinity Anglican Seminary since 2022, and has now finalized his paperwork to be canonically resident in our diocese.
The Rev. Jason Goble was ordained to the sacred order of deacons in June 2024 through the Gulf Atlantic Diocese of the ACNA and will be continuing his diaconal year in our diocese.
The Very Rev. Canon Bryan Hollon, PhD
Before joining Trinity, Bryan served for sixteen years as a professor of theology at Malone University in Canton, Ohio. He was also the city director of the C.S. Lewis Institute of northeast Ohio. In 2017, he and his wife Suzanne, planted St. John’s Anglican Church in North Canton, Ohio. Bryan pastored and grew the church so that a full-time rector could be called in 2021. As a scholar, Dr. Hollon specializes in ressourcement theology, which is best exemplified in the work of Henri de Lubac. As a seminary dean and president, he is always interested in the ways that Christians and Christian churches engage contemporary culture and remain faithful to the gospel in different contexts. Dr. Hollon is a proponent of the great consensual tradition that C.S. Lewis referred to as “Mere Christianity.” He and Suzanne grew up on different ends of the great state of Texas and met as undergraduate students at Baylor University. They were married in 1993 and have three grown children: Harrison, Claire, and John.
The Rev. Jason Goble
The Reverend Jason Goble is a member of the Sacred Order of Deacons currently serving at Mosaic Anglican Church in Imperial, PA, under the direction of the Rev. Elaine Storm. He and his wife, Sue, have one child (Hannah). Hailing originally from Gainesville, FL, Jason came to Pittsburgh in 2013 to attend Trinity Anglican Seminary (formerly Trinity School for Ministry) and received his M.Div. this past May. During those years, he met his wife, witnessed the birth of their daughter, and began working part-time as a software engineer for a small company that provides software and consulting services for organizations that serve lower-income families with small children experiencing homelessness or poverty. Having married a Pittsburgher, it was inevitable that his heart would belong to the "Burgh," and he transferred to the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh shortly after his ordination.
Jason has been a lifelong Anglican, raised in the church, and once titled "the church mouse" by a former rector—primarily because he was always scurrying around the church and never seemed to want to leave! As an early teenager, he surrendered his life to Christ at a leadership retreat, where he first heard the call to serve the church as an ordained minister. He stepped into church leadership, serving as a youth minister, Sunday school and Bible school teacher/director, camp counselor, acolyte warden, vestry member, etc. The kid that ran around on Sunday morning began to "run around" and try to do everything to serve the church he loves. Since then, he has faced many ups and downs, but God has always been faithful to shepherd him (albeit slowly, at times) to this calling.
His first passion is equipping the saints for ministry, sharing what he has learned in seminary through preaching and teaching. His experiences of life's trials and God's redemptive power have also given him a passion for reaching the "least and the lost" to share God's love and mercy into the dark places of this world. He believes that equipping the saints of God comes not only through education and outreach programs but also by building communities where people want to live and be formed into greater communion with Christ and his body. Forming and equipping the saints in Christ's image will result in the kingdom's growth and prosperity through their witness of love to a broken world.
He is eager to continue pursuing this work here in Pittsburgh and, the Lord willing, to continue to discern his call to wherever the Lord might lead.
